Final KM: Criterium du Dauphine stage 1

The Dolphin race is back!!! No, not those frolicsome sea mammals, but the French stage race that tempts and tunes up those Tour de France hopefuls.

Stage 1: Saint-Étienne to Saint-Étienne, 170km

The Belgian with Stelvio and Mont Ventoux on his palamares did it again! Lotto-Soudal’s Thomas de Gendt made the seven-man break-of-the-day, collected maximum points for the KOM competition, and then with the peloton leaving the chase too late, dispatched his breakaway partner Axel Domont (Ag2r La Mondiale) and soloed to a glorious victory. Domont claimed second with Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) attacking from the pack to round out the podium.

He was celebrating with a kilometre to go and we LOVED IT. We weren’t the only ones.

Mad mad Thomas de Gendt!He and Steve Cummings should have a two-man team that just hunts stages #dauphine